Weekly Bass Tip – Playing with a Capo!

Playing with a Capo isn’t normally part of our repertoire as bassists, but if you approach it a certain way, it can unlock some interesting possibilities for the creative bass player.

Like somebody said in the YouTube comments, you can also experiment with short scale bass timbres and feel. Simply detune your bass a whole step to D standard (DGCF) and put a capo on the 2nd fret – voila! Short scale bass. Make it as short as you’d like by detuning the bass lower and lower and raising the fret higher and higher.